CGU Car Insurance

My car sustained a substantial impact at the front when someone reversed with quite alot of force into my car(the person who hit me is a paramedic and was responding to a job). This resulted in my car being pushed back into the corner of a trailer. The at fault party confirmed this with cgu. I requested to have the matter escalated and cgu refused, telling me that I had no option for review. It was not until my bank steped in to help me that cgu agreed to escalate the matter. Cgu have now had my car for over 3 weeks and are still refusing to fi...Read more

Lodged claim for the hailstorms in Canberra on 20 January 2020. I have been patient given the number of vehicles affected and claims. My vehicle was assessed for write off on 15 February 2020. I have called CGU twice this week and on the first day 18 February 2020 I was on hold for 3 hours and did not get to speak to anyone at all. Wasted 3 hours of my day. The next day I called, I was advised that the reason was that they haven't processed the claim was because they were waiting for me to surrender the vehicle. How is a client suppose to know ...Read more

I was rear ended by another driver, we exchanged details and claims were lodged. The initial claim process with CGU was quick as the other drivers insurance company was liable for all the damages. CGU only offered two possible repairers, neither of which were close to my work or home which was a huge inconvenience.

After the car was inspected by the crash repairer, CGU were notified that my car was going to be off the road for at least a week. CGU said the only thing they would do for me and my family was provide me with a $50 cab voucher so I...Read more

Would give Zero stars if I could. My car was damaged in the Canberra Hailstorm on the 20th January. Clearly will be a write off.
Claim lodged within 2 hours of the storm. Claims person passed on the wrong information to the outsourced assessor they used. And to the tow company. Two more hours on the phone to sort this and arrangements finally made for car to be towed. No communication from CGU or tow company about where the car went. More hours spent on the phone to determine location.
I’m now told my car has been booked in for assessment on ...Read more

if I can give CGU a 0 star rating, I would. I have been with CGU for a few years, moved away from AAMI, brought all of our 3 cars over and this is the first time we have any claim with CGU.

We've lodge the claim in late Feb 2019, paid for the excess and never heard back from them. THEN the other party's insurance contacting us directly with their demand to pay. With so many phone calls, emails, time wasted and in AUG '19 CGU finally said they've settle the claim. However in October we got more demanding letter from the lawyer said the claim ...Read more

I had been with this company as a customer for last six years. Look what they did to me.

My was damaged; as someone hit from behind, the other car’s insurance company supposed to pay but we put the claim through my insurance which is CGU, but still it’s not been fixed.

We put the car in Spot on panel, partner to CGU, who said that the car is write off than what CGU guys did is without informing us transferred to another repairers which we never heard of and I was so furious First, they did not inform us, second we want our car to be repaired ...Read more

A CGU customer ran into the back of my near new stationary ute. I'm with Budget Direct and my ute is currently being repaired. I was advised today that repairs were going to take another few weeks, bringing the total repair time to 6 weeks, as they were waiting on a part from overseas.

Budget Direct provided me a hire car initially for 2 weeks. Upon learning that my ute wouldn't be ready for another 4 weeks I called Budget Direct to see if they would extend the rental car duration to cover the additional 4 weeks. The most Budget Direct ...Read more

I was placed with CGU from Police Credit when I took out my car loan.

The length to resolve not a fault claims is ridiculous,broken promises incorrect information and no follow up at all along with a assessing team that is useless and never available to both the customer and apparently the claims call center as they always tell you, I've tried calling I left a message with the assessors etc.

Assessors I believed are out an outsourced agency from CGU and take forever to review and approve claims. I was told this process takes 2 to 3 busine...Read more

** Don't bother to contact them through Facebook as requested - there is no outcome from doing that. **

Bureaucratic, argumentative & unpleasant to deal with - and I am just trying to get a list of the claims I have made so I can get quotes from other companies.

I had the same problem last year and ended up staying with them just because I couldn't get the information I needed in time. Surely this is illegal.

Update: I eventually got the information I needed - in just a couple of minutes - on the 5th phone call. Why were the other 4 people...Read more

I am comprehensively insured with CGU. I had an accident where the other driver was at fault. Communication is absolutely terrible. You speak with offshore human robots in Manila that don’t waver from their script. Anything they can’t handle is referred to assessors that don’t make contact with you as promised. I have been waiting 2 months for repairs. Be warned, CGU is part of Insurance Australia Group which includes SGIO, SGIC and Swann Insurance amongst others. I got on to CGU when I was police officer through Police Credit in Victoria (now...Read more